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The Modern Art Notes Podcast: Paul Goldberger

The American Institute of Architects has declared this National Architecture Week. The Modern Art Notes Podcast is celebrating by focusing on the intersection of architecture and art: This week’s program features architecture critic Paul Goldberger and artist Sarah Morris.

Earlier this month Goldberger moved to Vanity Fair from The New Yorker, where he had been the magazine’s architecture critic since 1997. Before that he was the architecture critic at The New York Times, where he won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1984. He’s the author of numerous books, including “Why Architecture Matters,” which was published by Yale University Press. He’s currently working on a biography of architect Frank Gehry that will be published by Alfred A. Knopf. Goldberger is also a superstar on Twitter.Tonight: Goldberger and Gehry will have a conversation at Yale at 6:30pm. You can watch a live-stream here.

Goldberger and I discuss:

Why he left The New Yorker for Vanity Fair;

The art museum building that he considers (surprisingly?) “one of the greatest museum buildings of the 20th century”;

Which art museums built during the last museo-building boom are the best;

Whether there’s any chance for something new to supplant the dominant white cube; and

What architects — established and not — Goldberger would short-list if he were building an art museum.

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The Modern Art Notes Podcast is an independent production of Modern Art Notes Media. It is released under this Creative Commons license. The image in this week’s banner is from Flickr user danoStL. For images of the works discussed on this week’s show, click through to the jump.